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2017 වසරේදී පුවත්පත් තුළ මාධ්‍ය ආචාර ධර්ම කඩවූ ආකාරය කෙබඳුද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-01)This infographic describes media ethics violations i.e. revealing identity and personal details of minors and suspects, publishing without sources and not revealing the identity of the reporter, reporting suicides without ... -
2019 ජනාධිපතිවරණ අපේක්ෂකයන් පිළිබඳව රූපවාහිනී මාධ්‍ය අනාවරණය කවරාකාරද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-11)Based on data collected from prime time news telecasts of selected Sinhala language TV channels (i.e. TV Derana, Hiru, Sirasa, ITN and Rupavahini), this infographic shows how the channels covered the three main candidates ... -
2019 ජනාධිපතිවරණ අපේක්ෂකයන් හා ඔවුන්ගේ මංගල රැලි පිළිබඳව රූපවාහිනී මාධ්‍ය අනාවරණය කවරාකාරද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-10)Based on data collected from prime time news telecasts of selected Sinhala language TV channels (i.e. TV Derana, Hiru, Sirasa, ITN and Rupavahini), these infographics show how the channels covered the three main candidates ... -
2021 මැයි 06 මහරගම නගර සභාවේ ගැටුම්කාරී තත්වය රූපවාහිනී නාලිකා ඔස්සේ විකාශය කර තිබූ අයුරු
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-05-13)In the month of May 2021, news channels broadcast a conflict in the Maharagama Municipal Council in an unethical manner. -
2022 වසරේ ගෝලීය සාගිනි දර්ශකයේ 64 වන ස්ථානයට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පත්වීම පිළිබඳව රූපවාහිනී වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 17, 2022 Sinhala Primetime news telecasts reported on Sri Lanka being ranked 64th out of 121 countries in the 2022 Global Hunger Index. Siyatha, Sirasa, Hiru and Swarnavahini reported this news while Rupavahini, ... -
54 persons including 13 girls arrested for partying illegally: ඇතැම් පුවතක කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු වනුයේ මන්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-01)During the month of January 2021, Divaina and Daily Mirror published 2 articles which contained women discriminatory reporting. Ex- highlighting women where it is not necessary and demeaning them. -
Conspiracy theories presented without sources
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-01)On 31 March 2020, Divaina published an article containing a conspiracy theory regarding COVID-19 that had been refuted by factchecking sites. Divaina did not cite sources to back up its claim. -
COVID-19 and Prejudiced Points
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-02)On 01 April 2020, Aruna ran an article quoting a vague source which claimed that hiding correct information is a trait of an individual's religion (which was also the religion of a COVID-19 patient) -
COVID-19: Is ethnicity relevant?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-03-20)On 19 March 2020 Mawbima published a news item on COVID-19 that emphasised irrelevant details including the ethnicity of a patient and (negative) details about patients -
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(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-08)On January 8, 2024, the Ethics Eye team published a three-slide post on their facebook page encouraging followers and others to join the team as external media ethics violation spotters. -
Ethics Eye: Bukiya - 27 February 2020
(2020-02-27)ඉරිදා මව්බිම පුවත්පතේ පළවන 'බුකිය' නම් වන කොලමෙන් උපුටා ගත් කොටස් කිහිපයක් මෙහි දක්වා ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානයට පාත්‍ර විය යුතු කරුණු කිහිපයක් සාකච්ඡා කෙරේ. -
General Election 2020: TV News Coverage of Political Parties - 13-17 July 2020
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-21)Prime time TV news coverage afforded to the main political parties contesting the 2020 General Elections by selected TV Sinhala language TV channels in the period 13-17 July, 2020 -
Inappropriate Reporting on Suicide
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)On April 28, 2020 and April 29, 2020 Aruna, Ada, and Mawbima reported on suicide in a manner that did not comply with media ethics guidelines -
International Women's Day: Ethical Reporting on women
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-03-07)On International Women's Day, ethical guidelines were published on a post to create awareness on reporting on women. -
Is it appropriate to use the term "mistress"?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-01-03)On 31 December 2019 Daily Mirror published a news item which included the term "mistress". Ethics Eye pointed out that The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a prominent international media and communications organisation ... -
Negative Terms
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-01)On April 30, 2020 Mawbima and Lankadeepa published articles containing the term "Kudda" in their headlines -
The news on ITN: Is there a basis for it? Is it not misleading?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-02)On 26 March 2020, ITN's 09.30 pm news ran a segment on the presidential pardon granted to Sunil Rathnayake. In this segment, Rathnayake's arrest and sentence was described as being part of the alleged 'Ranaviru Dadayama' ... -
Newspapers that have violated ethical guidelines when reporting on COVID-19: 2020 April 01-30
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)On 30 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Healthcare ... -
Proposal to suspend standing orders defeated or the motion against the president deafeated?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-19)On the proposal to suspend Parliament Standing Orders and debate motion against President, The Morning, Ceylon Today, Daily Mirror, and The Island correctly identified in their front page headlines that it was the proposal ... -
Sinhala Press Coverage of COVID-19: January-March 2020
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-03)On 03 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the media ethics guidelines while reporting on COVID-19